This study examines the FCC’s historical use of “voluntary commitments” when approving telecommunications company mergers. Because complex factors such as market conditions, corporate lobbying, political climate and ...

The goal of this study is to develop
management strategies that maximize growth, recruitment, and harvest of largemouth
bass Micropterus salmoides in Illinois impoundments. Largemouth bass are frequently
stocked in many ...

The mobilities turn has demonstrated the importance of the social, cultural, and political implications of travel for a variety of modes, though largely focused on people and vehicles, not freight. The transport of goods ...

Animal populations often fluctuate around local carrying capacity through density-dependent processes such as competition, predation, and disease. Once subject to debate, ecologists now recognize density dependence as a ...

This study offers an ethnographic account of life at a regulatory agency to offer a new perspective on an important question: how does a regulatory agency become and remain independent? Relying on an analytical framework ...

Fire blight, caused by the gram-negative bacterium Erwinia amylovora, is one of the most devastating bacterial diseases for the apple and pear industry. Two pathogenicity factors strictly required for E. amylovora to cause ...

Lung diseases include some of the most widespread and deadly conditions known to affect people around the world. The challenges of clinically tackling lung diseases arise from multiple factors associated with both diagnosis ...

This dissertation contains three chapters that study contracting problems associated with corporate financing. Below are the individual abstracts for each chapter.
Chapter 1: How Are Venture Capitalists Rewarded? The ...